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Contrast   /kˈɑntræst/  /kəntrˈæst/   Listen
Contrast

noun
1.
The opposition or dissimilarity of things that are compared.  Synonym: direct contrast.  "By contrast"
2.
The act of distinguishing by comparing differences.
3.
A conceptual separation or distinction.  Synonyms: demarcation, dividing line, line.
4.
The perceptual effect of the juxtaposition of very different colors.
5.
The range of optical density and tone on a photographic negative or print (or the extent to which adjacent areas on a television screen differ in brightness).
verb
(past & past part. contrasted; pres. part. contrasting)
1.
Put in opposition to show or emphasize differences.
2.
To show differences when compared; be different.  Synonym: counterpoint.



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"Contrast" Quotes from Famous Books



... the other, "their coats are blacker than our hair! Their nostrils pulse like a heart on fire! Their eyes flash like water in the sun! Ay! the handsome stranger, will he roll us in the dust? Ay! our golden horses, with the tails and manes of silver—how beautiful is the contrast with the vaqueros in their black and silver, their soft white linen! The shame! the shame!—if they are put to shame! Poor Guido! Will he lose this day, when he has won so many? But the stranger is so handsome! Dios de mi vida! his eyes ...
— The Splendid Idle Forties - Stories of Old California • Gertrude Atherton
... my opinion contrary to that of the noble lord who has now spoken; and it is no common perplexity to be reduced to the difficult choice of either suppressing my thoughts, or exposing them to so disadvantageous a contrast. ...
— The Works of Samuel Johnson, Vol. 11. - Parlimentary Debates II. • Samuel Johnson
... it is just so with all, and not contrast the inside of your paving stone with the ...
— The Magician's Show Box and Other Stories • Lydia Maria Child
... containing only pools of water. The scrub now opened, and the last four miles lay through a fine box-flat, bounded by long hollows surrounded with drooping tea-trees and the white water-gum, the bright foliage of which formed a most agreeable contrast with the dull green of the scrubs and the box-trees. After crossing a small sandy creek, along which grew a few Sarcocephalus, we came to a large creek lined with drooping tea-trees and Sarcocephalus, and encamped on a fine ...
— Journal of an Overland Expedition in Australia • Ludwig Leichhardt
... be impossible to picture that scene; but still more impossible to describe the contrast which, but the moment after, might have been witnessed upon the raft, when it was ascertained that the cry was a false alarm. No sail was in sight—there had been none—nothing could be seen of ship or sail over the wide circle of the ocean—nothing moved ...
— Ran Away to Sea • Mayne Reid


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